Tzeidah la-Derech [“Provision for the Way”: halachic compendium]
AUCTION 34 |
Tuesday, September 12th,
2006 at 1:00
Exemplary Hebrew Books: The Library of Joseph Gradenwitz, Esq.
Lot 77
IBN ZERACH, MENACHEM.
Tzeidah la-Derech [“Provision for the Way”: halachic compendium]
Sabbioneta: Vicenzo Conti (1567)
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $1,800
Rabbi-physician Menachem ibn Zerach was born in Estella in the northern province of Navarre, Spain to a family that fled France at the time of the expulsion of the Jews in 1306. With the death of Charles IV, the French king who ruled over Navarre in 1328, anti-Jewish riots erupted. The author’s parents and his four younger brothers perished, the author himself escaped, settling eventually in Toledo, where he studied under Rabbi Judah, son of Rabbi Asher (RO”SH).
Tzeidah la-Derech was composed for the personal use of ibn Zerach’s benefactor, Don Samuel Abrabanel of Seville. It contains a particularly important introduction with much invaluable material on the history of Halacha or Jewish jurisprudence